In his classic escape account The Colditz Story, Pat Reid told the story of the escape academy that sprang up inside the most impregnable German POW camp of World War II, ending appropriately with his own spectacular escape in 1942. This sequel is the enthralling story of those he left behind. By 1943 the Germans had learned most of the escape tricks and had become more ruthless in dealing with those they caught, making escape from Colditz considerably harder. Allied prisoners were forced to stretch their ingenuity to the limits, faking chronic medical complaints, digging ever-deeper tunnels, and even building a glider in the hope that they might fly out of the castle.